Sachini Kavindya

RSF and six civil society organizations welcome the opinion of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) to recognise that Belarusian journalist Raman Pratasevich is a victim of arbitrary detention and urge the international community to exert pressure on Belarus to release Raman Pratasevich and drop the criminal case against him. Читать на

Ten months after receiving a Slovak governmental delegation led by then Prime Minister Igor Matovic (who is now deputy prime minister), Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has a mixed assessment of the measures proposed by the government to support journalism and trustworthy reporting. In response to RSF’s call at the meeting in February to “move from

Apple has launched an app for competitor Android’s smartphones, which will inform users if there is a tracking device nearby. Apple’s AirTags are small location trackers that can be attached to items such as keys or bags in case they are lost. But they could also be used with malicious intent, such as being planted

Instagram has apologised for wrongly disabling the account of an artist with the handle @metaverse, for a month. On 2 November, Australian technologist and artist Thea-Mai Baumann had been told she had been “blocked for pretending to be someone else” the New York Times first reported. Five day’s earlier, Instagram’s parent company, Facebook, had rebranded as

Half of all women have felt unsafe at some point walking alone in the dark, according to recent figures from the Office for National Statistics. They might call a friend, share their location on WhatsApp, or have their keys to hand – all strategies to stay secure. Sexual harassment against females has been under the

2021-12-09. Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov received the Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Oslo, recognising their struggle for press freedom, and the efforts of journalists all over the world who hold the line. Javier Garza Ramos looks at the signficicance. In 1935, journalists wrote on typewriters and their stories were set in lead